Posted on 09/04/2012 8:06:42 AM PDT by freedomlover
SALT LAKE CITY — Maybe now, reporters, bloggers, outsiders and even many Mormons will accept that the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not forbid drinking cola.
On Aug. 29, the LDS church posted a statement on its website saying that “the church does not prohibit the use of caffeine” and that the faith’s health-code reference to “hot drinks” “does not go beyond (tea and coffee).”
A day later, the website wording was slightly softened, saying only that “the church revelation spelling out health practices … does not mention the use of caffeine.”
The same goes for the church’s two-volume handbook, which LDS leaders use to guide their congregations. It says plainly that “the only official interpretation of ‘hot drinks’ … in the Word of Wisdom is the statement made by early church leaders that the term ‘hot drinks’ means tea and coffee.”
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The change in meatless Fridays is not a change in any command of God revealed by Revelation. The Catholic Church has never said that it is a biblical command to have meatless fridays. The Catholic has said that Jesus gave the key's of the kingdom to the apostles to bind on earth and in heaven and that the Church continues to have this authority through Apostolic Succession. Thus through these keys, the Church has the authority to require fasting and penance to make up for our sins and short comings and to increase the holiness of all Catholics. The way the Church traditionally chose to offer this penance to God was by requiring Catholics to abstain from eating meat on the day of the Lord's Crucifixion.
By the way, the Catholic Church law still requires Catholics to abstain from meat on Fridays as a form of penance, however, a Catholic is now free to replace abstaining from meat with another penance, or charitable work if the Conference of Catholic bishops allows it. Nevertheless, abstaining from eating meat on Fridays is still the normal form of this penance.
infanticide, what do you call it?
Abortion is infanticide.
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